Poetry by Heart Workshop 2025

Learning poems by heart offers multiple benefits for a happier and more fulfilling life — it can enhance oral communication skills and improve one's memory, besides honing deeper concentration and focus. Targeted at primary and secondary school students but also open to their family, friends, and members of the public, this interactive workshop will share basic principles and strategies for poetry memorisation and performance, including retrieval practice, learning by drawing, and embodied learning approaches. 

Participants will select their favourite poems and practise techniques that they can use to learn them by heart and recite them out loud. By activating the transformative power of memorisation and performance, participants can deepen their understanding of poetry while developing a keener appreciation of voice, rhythm, tone, and articulation. In the process, participants can enjoy the process of connecting with their favourite poems, with one another, and with themselves.

This workshop, which supports the upcoming second edition of the National Poetry Recitation Competition (NPRC), is organised by Poetry Festival Singapore. It is supported by Arts House Limited and poetry.sg.

Date/Time: 24 May 2025, Saturday, 2–4 PM
Venue: Goodman Arts Centre (MPR2 - Blk B #03-11), 90 Goodman Road, Singapore 439053

  • Take a look at our suggested list of poems in advance (and select a poem — or two — to perform): https://for.edu.sg/nprcpoems
  • Registration for the National Poetry Recitation Competition (NPRC) is also open online from 1 April 2025 to 2 July 2025. The rules and regulations for the NPRC are accessible at https://for.edu.sg/nprc2025rules

For more details, please visit https://www.poetryfestival.sg. We look forward to your participation!

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Acknowledgment of parental consent *
For primary/secondary/open category participants aged below 18, please indicate that your parents/guardians have given permission for you to participate in this competition, and if you are selected, for you to participate in the finals.

For open category participants aged 18 and above, please indicate that you do not require parental permission to participate in this competition by ticking the checkbox below. 

In line with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012, by submitting the consent form below, you affirm that your parents/guardians hereby give consent to the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore to collect, use, disclose, and/or process their child’s/ward’s personal data for the purposes of processing your registration, as well as for contacting you regarding competition-related matters via calls, text messages, and emails. Through your participation in the National Poetry Recitation Competition, your parents/guardians agree that your photographs and/or audio/video recordings may be used by the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore for internal and external purposes (such as publicity, communication, and archival) through mediums including, but not limited to, printed materials, electronic publications, websites, and social media platforms.

Your parents/guardians also release the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore, and its partner organisations, from any and all claims and demands arising out of or in connection with
participation in the competition. On behalf of their child/ward, in the event that he/she advances to the
finals, your parents/guardians undertake to release and hold harmless the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore, and its directors, volunteers, assignees, and appointees from any damages incurred while travelling to and from and while participating in the event.
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Your personal data privacy is important to us. We are committed to safeguarding the personal data that we may possess.

  • By submitting this form, you consent to being photographed/video-recorded during the workshop for documentation and publicity purposes.
  • We will only collect, use, disclose, and/or process your personal data to conduct registration and administration of this event.
  • We will keep your personal data secure from unauthorised access, modification, disclosure, use, and copying, whether in hard copy or electronic form.
  • You have the right to withdraw your consent. However, your withdrawal of consent could result in certain consequences arising from such withdrawal. Depending on the extent of your withdrawal of consent for us to process your personal data, it may mean that we will not be able to consider or continue processing your submission. If you wish to withdraw your consent in part or whole, please contact Poetry Festival Singapore.
In line with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012, by submitting this form, you hereby give your consent to the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore to collect, use, disclose, and/or process your personal data for the purposes of processing your registration, as well as for contacting you regarding competition-related matters via calls, text messages, and emails. Through your participation in the competition, you agree that your photographs and/or audio/video recordings may be used by the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore for internal and external purposes (such as publicity, communication and archival) through mediums including, but not limited to, printed materials, electronic publications, websites, and social media platforms.

You also release the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore, and its
partner organisations, from any and all claims and demands arising out of or in connection with
participation in the workshop. You undertake to release and hold harmless the National Poetry Recitation Competition / Poetry Festival Singapore, and its directors, volunteers, assignees, and appointees from any damages incurred while travelling to and from and while participating in the event.
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